Archive for September, 2011

Here are the punchlines of our group (students from Centrale Nantes), working on the test framework of Markus.

Charline

Status :

Markus is installed on my personal Laptop. I did some first tests on Markus. First attempt to define the key elements we have to do on the project.

Next Step :

Define precisely the tasks we have to do. Understand exactly what was done concerning Markus test framework (what is working or not? What still remain to do?)

Roadblocks:

None

Claire

Status :

installation of markus done on my computer
first browsing through the markus platform
first glimpse of technical expectations (one of the main task will be to manage “view” aspects of the test framework)

Next Step :

list precisely what has already been done concerning the test framework
complete specifications of our project
list precisely what has to be done to achieve our project, in agreement with specifications

Roadblocks :

None

Benjamin

Status :

Having set up the different tools and applications in order to work efficiently on Markus and the project.

Next Step :

First test on the Markus program itself. First attempt to define the job description for the project (requirements and their applications).

Roadblocks :

None

Guillaume

Status :

I’ve Markus running on my computer. I discovered the Admin section of Markus. Also learn a bit about Rails and the MVC schema (thought I already knew a bit about MCV structure).

Next Step :

Have a loo at the test framework, test what exist for the moment, and write specifications of our project (should be done on Monday)

Roadblocks :

None !

Bertrand

Status :

Markus is now running on my fedora distribution
I discovered the MVC mode

Next Step :

Explore the Markus website when it’s running on my computer. (Admin / student / graders).
Visit the markus developer’s blogs in purpose of knowing what has already been done.
Read some documentations about ant and ruby.
Improve my knowledge in MVS schema.

Discussed specifics of how people are progressing and gave suggestions to members who were still having trouble getting fully up and running. This included suggestions for tutorials and issues to look at that would help in the learning process.

The majority of projects that the UCOSP team will be looking at were not discussed this week except for the test framework which was discussed in broad detail only due to the fact that another team of students from Ecole Centrale de Nantes will also be working on said project throughout the term.

There was also mention of a co-op student being hired from University of Waterloo to spend a term working on the Markus project either coming winter or spring term.

The MarkUs team is meeting weekly on irc.freenode.net #markus on Wednesdays, 3 p.m. (EDT). Every Tuesday, each member of the team (including myself) must come up with a “punchline” status update. These updates are short, bulleted, straight-to-the-point reports that tell us how everybody is doing. They follow a very simple format: see thesethreeexamples. The punchlines need to be published on this blog every Tuesday, and it is every team member’s responsibility to give them a read before coming into the meeting.

But instead of everybody logging in and editing a single blog post for the status updates, we’ll rotate responsibility for collecting/publishing punchlines every week. Similarly, we will rotate the duty of converting our IRC meeting logs into notes.

Here’s the schedule outlining who is doing what each week. Teammates: I highly suggest bookmarking this page.

We are 5 students working on MarkUs – as part of UCOSP – this fall. Who are we?

Alex Krassikov

Alex is a forth year Computer Science student at UofT. He is the vice president of the Computer Science Student Union at UofT, creating ample opportunities for students to socialize and have fun while making valuable connections for the future. Alex has most of his experience in Java, C, and Python, but in the past has dabbled in languages such as Scheme. He occasionally uses his coding skills to make little apps that help him make accurate decisions in his favourite video games or help his fellow neighbours. Besides coding, Alex enjoys recreational activities which include but not limited to: ultimate Frisbee, playing board games, baking cakes and muffins, as well as staring at cute pictures of cats.

Luke Kysow

Luke is a fourth year Computer Science student at UBC. He has worked for UBC on their website UBC Events, for SAP in their Innovation Center and recently for EA on their FIFA site. Luke has worked in Ruby, PHP, Java, C, a little Perl and soon to be added Erlang, Haskell and Prolog! He has also done freelance work on the side, creating websites, and is in the midst of starting a company with a friend. When he’s not on the computer, Luke is rock climbing, bouldering, skiing and playing video games… okay that last one is on the computer too.

Razvan Vlaicu

Razvan is a fourth year computer science student at UW. He has worked all of his off terms while in school for a startup company in Waterloo called Aeryon labs doing software development for their product. Razvan has spent most of his development experience in C, C++, and Java. In his spare time he enjoys bicycling, running, and exploring the art of video game design.

Erik Traikov

Erik is a fourth year computer science student at UW. As a co-op student, some of my work terms have included doing SQL & PL/SQL scripting, teaching scheme and c/c++ to first and second year students at the university, and doing iPhone development in objective-c. In my spare time, I like to play dungeons and dragons as well as Magic: the Gathering. In fact, I was invited to nationals in august, and I will be attending a tournament this weekend (sept 17) in Montreal.

Severin Gehwolf

Severin is a fourth year Computer Science student at University of Toronto who spent most of the last 16 months hacking on Eclipse plug-ins. In particular, Fedora Packager for Eclipse and Eclipse Linux Tools. Severin’s programming experience ranges from Perl hacking on XIMS, Ruby and Ruby on Rails to Java and Eclipse Plug-ins with some occasional forays into the C/C++ programming world. Severin studied business in Austria, has done Apache httpd web server administration, is now maintainer of some Fedora packages and currently works for Red Hat. He is mostly interested in operating systems, networking, Web programming and computer systems in general. He enjoys to hack on MarkUs in his spare time and will have a closer look at MarkUs’ performance this term. In his spare time he enjoys canoeing, skiing, running, reading, good food and the occasional beer as well as describing himself in the third person 😉